I don't think there are any made specifically for Yosemite. These are 64 Kexts from 10.6.2.
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I don't think there are any made specifically for Yosemite. These are 64 Kexts from 10.6.2.
I upgraded my MacBook3,1 (Late 2007) to Yosemite yesterday.
I followed the guide on the first page of this topic, starting with a Mac AppStore download of Yosemite 10.10.1. It is a long process, and I thought I bricked my MacBook a couple of times, but it is doable if you have a couple of spare hours. You might save some time if you find the right patched Yosemite installation image online.
After installation and reboot, I first got the "no entry" sign, which required booting from the installation stick and deleting a plist file (see guide).
WiFi and Bluetooth worked out of the box.
Without graphics drivers, the system is barely usable. Not so much in terms of look and feel, but logging in and a number of other trivial operations seem to take ages.
With the beta X3100 graphics drivers, the system is much better although still feels slower than it should be at times: switching users in particular takes a lot more time that should be required. Disabling some graphic accelarations help somewhat. Normal operations on the other hand are OK - I ran Geekbench 3 and the score appears normal.
I got no sound out of the box after installation. I managed to get a faint, hissing sound after installing the Voodoo package. I'll look at it as I think some got it working better.
As reported by others, the system is not fully fonctional. Other than the above-mentionned slowness, here is what I noted (non exhaustive list):
The last issue above is by far the one annoying me the most. You can mitigate it by setting the laptop to never sleep, even when running on battery. To avoid going to sleep with the lid closed, I understand you need the help of a soft such as this one: http://code.google.com/p/macosx-nosleep-extension/
So, is it worth uppgrading? Probably not if this is your main machine and have no specific requirement for Yosemite features. My MacBook was running much better and more smoothly under Lion (with the possible exception of Safari which has got better).
But my MacBook is now running the latest versions of iWork, iPhoto... and syncs with the iCloud drive, which means that full interoperability has been restored with my other Apple machines (Macs, iPads and iPhones). That was the main reason for upgrading and the deal seems reasonable enough, especially if I can get fully working audio.
Now, if someone could get the sleep to work...
I followed the guide on the first page of this topic, starting with a Mac AppStore download of Yosemite 10.10.1. It is a long process, and I thought I bricked my MacBook a couple of times, but it is doable if you have a couple of spare hours. You might save some time if you find the right patched Yosemite installation image online.
After installation and reboot, I first got the "no entry" sign, which required booting from the installation stick and deleting a plist file (see guide).
WiFi and Bluetooth worked out of the box.
Without graphics drivers, the system is barely usable. Not so much in terms of look and feel, but logging in and a number of other trivial operations seem to take ages.
With the beta X3100 graphics drivers, the system is much better although still feels slower than it should be at times: switching users in particular takes a lot more time that should be required. Disabling some graphic accelarations help somewhat. Normal operations on the other hand are OK - I ran Geekbench 3 and the score appears normal.
I got no sound out of the box after installation. I managed to get a faint, hissing sound after installing the Voodoo package. I'll look at it as I think some got it working better.
As reported by others, the system is not fully fonctional. Other than the above-mentionned slowness, here is what I noted (non exhaustive list):
- Videos do not play in VLC (missing OpenGL support) but other options work (QuickTime, Chrome)
- Maps does not show anything (probably requires OpenGL 4)
- Google Maps in Chrome works but is very slow and subject to glitches (broken beta drivers?)
- The latest iMovie won't install (unsupported graphic card)
- MacBook does not appear to properly go to sleep or hibernation modes but if sleep time has come, display goes black and there no way to recover it - you need to force shutdown and restart.
The last issue above is by far the one annoying me the most. You can mitigate it by setting the laptop to never sleep, even when running on battery. To avoid going to sleep with the lid closed, I understand you need the help of a soft such as this one: http://code.google.com/p/macosx-nosleep-extension/
So, is it worth uppgrading? Probably not if this is your main machine and have no specific requirement for Yosemite features. My MacBook was running much better and more smoothly under Lion (with the possible exception of Safari which has got better).
But my MacBook is now running the latest versions of iWork, iPhoto... and syncs with the iCloud drive, which means that full interoperability has been restored with my other Apple machines (Macs, iPads and iPhones). That was the main reason for upgrading and the deal seems reasonable enough, especially if I can get fully working audio.
Now, if someone could get the sleep to work...
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GeekBench is mostly a CPU-based test, it does not test GPUs. As such, you can expect roughly the same results with all OS X versions, whether with or without graphics acceleration.
Sleep is managed by the Intel GMA framebuffer and the 64bit version from 10.6.2 does not properly support sleep and wake features. Indeed, you'll need to force shutdown/restart your system if calling on sleep functionality. You will never get sleep and/or wake to work on a GMA-based Mac under a 64bit-only OS X version such as ML, Mav or Yos.[...]
Now, if someone could get the sleep to work...
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Following the first two posts, I've managed to install on a partition of a MacMini 2006. To get it working, I had to use a different boot-efi. I used the piker-alpha one from here: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1740775/
Originally my mac mini was on efi 1,1 but had been previously upgraded to 2,1. Obviously you'll need a 64bit CPU in your old 2006.
So far, sleep doesn't work the top menu of some windows does not appear properly eg System settings. I'll need to further test and integrate 64bit kext for GMA950.
Originally my mac mini was on efi 1,1 but had been previously upgraded to 2,1. Obviously you'll need a 64bit CPU in your old 2006.
So far, sleep doesn't work the top menu of some windows does not appear properly eg System settings. I'll need to further test and integrate 64bit kext for GMA950.
So far the system is stable and usable for what I want.
I can't load the kext. Console reports error as it is unsigned. I'll try and re-install with different utilities but I may have hit a wall for the GMA950 kext. Apparently 10.10 enforces kext signing.
Yes, in OS X 10.10.x Yosemite all Kernel Extensions must be signed. To load unsigned Kexts try in Single-User-Mode:
sudo nvram boot-args="kext-dev-mode=1"
10.9.x Mavericks requires also signed Kexts, but only in /Library/Extensions. Kexts outside this directory without or inappropriate signing will load with a warning window in 10.9.x Mavericks.
If anyone wants to test out OS X Update Seed 10.10.2
Enter this in the terminal (Without the Spaces between the H T T P S : / /):
Then open the Mac App Store and you should see the update
Enter this in the terminal (Without the Spaces between the H T T P S : / /):
Then open the Mac App Store and you should see the update
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I haven't noticed any wifi issues from neither my MacBook 4,1 or Macbook Pro (mid 2010) but then again I didn't even have the problem to begin with. I know there is a thread somewhere about it.
Did you guys see this?
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/to...universal-binaries-of-efi-pete-files-efilipo/
https://github.com/andyvand/macosxbootloader
AndyVandijck has a fork of macosxbootloader now using the tools he created in the first link.
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/to...universal-binaries-of-efi-pete-files-efilipo/
https://github.com/andyvand/macosxbootloader
AndyVandijck has a fork of macosxbootloader now using the tools he created in the first link.
If you're hoping on the 64 bits kext support for GMA GPUs not a chance. He is just repackaging what we are doing right now. Plus adding the option to install ML "on legacy systems".
Well, not that I expected anything much different anyway...
They get choppy anytime Vibrancy is involved. More specifically in
- Mission Control
- Launchpad
- Show all windows
- Show a Dock's stack in grid mode
And maybe in some smaller little things I didn't notice. Unfortunately the option to disable Vibrancy in the Accessibility settings does nothing in our systems, since it is practically disabled already due to the lack of drivers.
Also I believe there is an issue in Yosemite with the I/O. It took me half an hour to copy Xcode (~ 7GB) from one partition to another.
Yosemite will not boot macbook 4.1
Good afternoon managed to install Yosemite in my macbook white 2008 4.1 only when booting appears a blank prohibition sign with gray background read in another post that was to try to delete the platformsupport.plist through the following command:
rm / Volumes / Mac (my HDD) /System/Library/CoreServices/PlatformSupport.plist, but when I give it appears enter the seguite phrase:
override rw-r - r-- 501 / staff is platformsupport.plist? al put y or yes and I enter it appears:
rm: platformsupport.plist: read-only file system
I do not know how to delete this file if someone can help me
ps: sorry for the horrible English.
Good afternoon managed to install Yosemite in my macbook white 2008 4.1 only when booting appears a blank prohibition sign with gray background read in another post that was to try to delete the platformsupport.plist through the following command:
rm / Volumes / Mac (my HDD) /System/Library/CoreServices/PlatformSupport.plist, but when I give it appears enter the seguite phrase:
override rw-r - r-- 501 / staff is platformsupport.plist? al put y or yes and I enter it appears:
rm: platformsupport.plist: read-only file system
I do not know how to delete this file if someone can help me
ps: sorry for the horrible English.
Never seen that before. Have you tried adding 'sudo' to the code.
It allows users to run stuff with the security privileges.
with "sudo" he's as invalid command. the terminal starts with "bash-3.2 # and does not allow sudo
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I just updated to 10.10.2 build 14C81f. What a mess. This is what I did:
- Downloaded and installed 14C81f from the App Store
- It automatically reboots
- Rebooted into mavericks partition (to get access to Terminal)
- Restored back the Pike's boot.efi and the AppleHDA.kext for my MacBook
- rebooted
It complained something about the boot.efi. But the message was actually coming from rEFInd. Anyway. So I just proceeded in the following way:
- Powered down the MacBook
- Power on - It booted S L O W L Y. With quite some errors.
- It reached the login screen.
Everything seemed fine (audio included), it was just slow. I've run "repair disk permission". No changes. So I resorted using the mythical Onyx. Updated to the latest release (2.9.1 right now) and run the "Automatic" maintenance, enabling the system cache deletion and rebooted when done. Now it seems working as usual again.
I don't know if it is because I've put the older pike's boot.efi, messed up updating manually the caches, Spotlight was updating or else. I just know I have got a cold vibe on my spine!!
- Downloaded and installed 14C81f from the App Store
- It automatically reboots
- Rebooted into mavericks partition (to get access to Terminal)
- Restored back the Pike's boot.efi and the AppleHDA.kext for my MacBook
- rebooted
It complained something about the boot.efi. But the message was actually coming from rEFInd. Anyway. So I just proceeded in the following way:
- Powered down the MacBook
- Power on - It booted S L O W L Y. With quite some errors.
- It reached the login screen.
Everything seemed fine (audio included), it was just slow. I've run "repair disk permission". No changes. So I resorted using the mythical Onyx. Updated to the latest release (2.9.1 right now) and run the "Automatic" maintenance, enabling the system cache deletion and rebooted when done. Now it seems working as usual again.
I don't know if it is because I've put the older pike's boot.efi, messed up updating manually the caches, Spotlight was updating or else. I just know I have got a cold vibe on my spine!!
14C81f and firmware
Someone mentions a related firmware update.
I don't imagine that firmware applying to an unsupported Mac. Just a mention, in case it offers background to what's expected by that build of the OS.
Someone mentions a related firmware update.
I don't imagine that firmware applying to an unsupported Mac. Just a mention, in case it offers background to what's expected by that build of the OS.
Well, yeah. But the fw update packages usually check for the HW to update. If it isn't there they don't get executed.
The bad news instead is that Messages/Facetime are gone. They tell me to call Apple giving a serial number. I tried a couple of different nvram parameters and also clearing the nvram. It didn't get worse the best. I'll call tomorrow. Unless anyone has the definitive solution, sure. I can't go through that gazillion pages thread in tonymacx86.com.
Anyway.. I'd suggest to stay far away from this update.
PS: I called Apple. The best custom service ever as i've heard from so many people, actually. The guy unlocked my ID but Messages/Facetime still give the same error message. I am tempted to reinstall everything, update to 10.10.1 and leave it as it is forever.
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OSXHackers.tk #Down again
New Domains that you can use to link with it.
Osxhackers.honor.es
MacPostFactor.tk
I am also getting reports of people having problems after installing Yosemite. Guide on first page will be checked and edited as needed.
It worked into the verbose mode !!!!!
What's New:
Talked with Roland B. and got some awesome terminal commands to turn off excess animations to improve graphics just a tiny bit more. The Dark menu bar and Dock, of course, looks way better than what I was seeing with my mom's Macbook (GMA X3100).
Talked with Roland B. and got some awesome terminal commands to turn off excess animations to improve graphics just a tiny bit more. The Dark menu bar and Dock, of course, looks way better than what I was seeing with my mom's Macbook (GMA X3100).
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